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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1938
Page
3
A reflective piece praising American ideals. It highlights trust in majority decisions, opposition to might makes right, equal opportunity for native and immigrant citizens, protection from want, security at home, freedom of thought and expression, and a goal of a race and religion prejudice free society.
The Franco German accord is a loose pledge lacking binding guarantees. It implies acceptance of Austria’s and Sudetenland outcomes by France, while Germany reasserts Alsace Lorraine. Mussolini presses Italian claims as Piron warns Europe may drift toward war in spring 1939.
The National Safety Council notes a 20 percent drop in traffic deaths for the first ten months versus 1987, with a 23 percent decline in October. Officials hope the trend continues through the year, urging motorists and pedestrians to exercise ordinary caution amid urban fog and sleet hazards.
A reader asks why friends turn hostile in crisis and how to explain it. The piece argues that human frailty and sudden tragedy test faith, requiring effort to distinguish blame from circumstance. It also touches on liberty, art, learning, and governance as enduring civic ideals.
A page lists birthdays of notable figures from 1741 to 1937 including John Murray William Lloyd Garrison and Emily Dickinson, with brief lines on their origins, roles, and death dates. Today in history notes Mississippi statehood 1817 and Wyoming women’s suffrage 1869, plus other events through 1935-1937. The column ends with a horoscope and a philosophical aside.
Oberlin College sociology head Professor Newell L. Sims has been invited as a principal speaker at the 14th International Sociological Congress in Bucharest Romania from August 29 to September 14 1939. He will address Agricultural Cooperatives and is noted for Elements of Rural Sociology and other writings. The congress marks the 100th anniversary of Auguste Comte's definition of sociology.
Ten members and five guests of the Congregational Ladies Dime Society met at Mrs. Ella Harper’s home in South Amherst on Thursday afternoon. They transacted routine business and arranged a tureen dinner at noon and a ten cent Christmas gift exchange at the church parlors on Thursday, December 22. Hostesses later served refreshments. The report then notes South Amherst basketball.
Hindu mythology explains how Buddha achieved enlightenment under a fig tree, the Bodhi tree. The tree symbolizes divine wisdom, and today any tree under which a Buddhist sits can be regarded as sacred, carrying the essence of that enlightenment.
Paul Smith of the San Francisco Chronicle and E. Manchester Boddy of The Los Angeles News are honored for shaping the warehousemen's strike and backing the New Deal in California. The profile notes Smith's rise from varied trades to editor and manager and Boddy's bold media leadership and anti graft crusades amid war and bankruptcy.
Saturday December 10 reads Revelations 21 1 7 about a new heaven and earth. Fosdick urges hope amid job loss and despair, warning that without faith people may doom themselves. Christians must proclaim hope to counter hopelessness in daily life.
Judge Smith gathers 50 warehousemen and owners in a stormy meeting to end a deadlock. He warns he will print the truth about the warehouse industry if they fail to settle. His ultimatum triggers a contract for the warehousemen and makes his feat a West Coast newspaper sensation.
Oberlin College set a week of noon talks in Finney Chapel featuring Professor Cony Sturgis on Latin America Present and Future, William Seaman on Under the Cork Tree, William Brown on Trends in Modern Architecture, and Darell Farnham leading chapel services.
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